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The volunteers’ spirit of togetherness can tie their community together more closely, and naturally it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of aiding their local poor. The obvious problem is that freeing up the time to volunteer can waste very same time that could readily be put to better use elsewhere. Companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, that developed shopping and financial benefits programs like SavingsAce, are stepping up to become the points of organization enabling their employees to find the time to pitch in. If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, maybe an annual call for donations, and no more, but this is simply no longer true. Shoe recycling initiatives and more active work like tree replanting events — these are just some of the activities that have been organized by Adaptive Marketing for its employees. By centralizing the organization individual initiatives grew into events, with specific locations, dates and times made public early to make time management easy for those signing up.

Making sure volunteers have a say in which drives the company sponsors is also important. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, present their staffers with a diverse list of activities. Previous and current projects have seen improvements made in a wide range of areas including education for children and young adults, green programs, and events related to artists. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers are presented with the chance to use their time as efficiently as they can and enjoy participating in the process. When firms encourage their staff to get involved at a nearby homeless shelter, it is frequently during an individual event or a regularly scheduled, ongoing undertaking. This means that if you’ve only got enough time to burn to assist at a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park or the public library’s used book sale, there’s still a chance to make a difference. Applying their expertise to the benefit of the community around them is a long-standing tradition at many businesses. Adaptive Marketing like many other businesses sponsors volunteer programs to support the people of its home town and to generate goodwill within the local community through its staffers activities. The real bonus is, the benefits of helping others include a sense of accomplishment — a positive feeling that can influence the entire company. Putting the opportunities out there to help employees set aside the time to volunteer is beneficial to everyone involved.

Drospirenone is just one of the causes assigned to the outpouring of Yaz side effects reported regularly in America. Drospirenone is an ingredient allegedly unlike other progestins in the United States and was not used in America before showed up in Yasmin, Yaz and Ocella. Add in the fact that the Food & Drug Administration released warning letter to the makers of Ocella, Yasmin and Yaz for using low-quality batches of drospirenone from Germany and you have the makings of a cautionary tale involving Big Pharma and its neglect for the people using its pills.

There are already numerous lawsuits charged in various counties across the country against the contraceptive producer. This number is expected to reach 1,000. Any of those effected by Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella can submit a case evaluation at TheLegalAdvocate.com to have a lawyer review their info in order to be provided with answers and hopefully representation.

Adult Females taking Yasmin, Yaz or Ocella to avoid getting pregnant or to treat PMDD (Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder) or severe acne have reportedly endured extreme injury to their health and wellbeing. Although most pharmaceuticals present some form of side effects, the main topic surrounding Yaz seems to be that the original commercials downplayed the health risks and side effects. This attracted users to the product that may not have taken it otherwise had they been properly informed about the risks posed by Ocella, Yasmin and Yaz.

The Bacardi Family Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Bacardi Ltd, the world’s largest family-owned spirits business.

Casa Bacardi, which is a $1 million donation to the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies at the University of Miami, is a concrete example of the >Bacardi Family Foundation’s philanthropic efforts. Showcasing Cuban culture and history in an interactive concept, Casa Bacardi, can be found at the university’s campus in Coral Gables.

One of the center’s attractions is The Music Pavilion where visitors will have the chance to listen to over 2,000 digital songs of Cuban musicians like Dmaso Perez Prado and Celia Cruz, plus singers from the 1800s. The pavilion also boasts of a collection of the works of Luis Carbonell, Guillermo Alvarez and other Cuban comedians.

The Bacardi Family Foundation gets it financial authority from Bacardi Limited, whose history can be tracked down to the very origin of the premium white rum. Its legacy descends from Don Facundo Bacard Mass of Santiago de Cuba who founded the company. Don Facundo’s concoction, Bacardi Superior Rum, is the world’s first premium aged white rum that is derived from a yeast strain discovered through a filtration and distillation process. Bacardi is the first name in rum.

This is the first of a series of four articles where my uncle, the late Mr Gordon Bessant is talking to Mr Joe Hieatt-Smith about life during the war years. They taped these recollections in 1996.

What did you do during the war Gordon?

From the time I was 14 to the time I was 19 I worked mostly on armaments, the Spitfire, Bristol Bombers - the engines and fuselage components for the Spitfire and the Western Lysander. At the very beginning of the war itself - it was on a Sunday morning the 3rd of September 1939.

I was at Testwood Church, because I sang in the choir. Everybody in the church as they came in were all saying “Do you think there’ll be a war?” Of course I was only fourteen years of age and I’d just finished school. There was none of this going on to extended school like there is today. It was basically compulsory that you left school at 14. I’d left school in the August, 1939.

It was our summer holidays and my father was negotiating with a company that was working for the repairs and maintenance at the Sunderland flying boats (and the flying boats flew into Southampton Water). They were docked and stationed at Hythe on the west bank of the river Test opposite Southampton docks itself. There’s a company there that was manufacturing exhaust equipment and all manner of ancillary equipment for the flying boats.

Anyway I got a job with them as an apprentice in sheet metal working and general engineering. I was 14 and my rate of pay was 10 shillings a week. (That’s 50 pence in modern money, less than a dollar, a week!) Out of that we paid fourpence for our stamps for National Health and Unemployment. We had the princely sum of nine and eight a week for the first 12 months. At that time there wasn’t an awful lot of work in the area, not for children, boys, of 14, so you more of less got a job where you could. Much the same as it is today really. Only because of the war you went into production mode and everybody was working for peace and the defence of the country so you really got a job whether it was an apprenticeship or not. I was fortunate my father had been negotiating with the employment of myself in the industry and of course I naturally got a job.

How did life change when the war started?

The first thing was everybody was telling everybody it would all be over by Christmas, that was in September, we got the idea it wouldn’t last long. My father who had been in the Royal Navy in the first world war, he wasn’t fooled too easily by others, and he said it would take them some time to even catch up with what the Germans had developed in armaments and war material. Of course the Germans had tried out all their weapons - you’ve probably heard of the Spanish civil war they had in 1937,38 when the Germans had a fighter bomber called the Stuka. They tested that on the Spanish in Spain during the civil war, and other armaments they had developed, so they knew that they operated much more efficiently than our own.

We were still relying on the Enfield rifle that was built and designed way back before the first world war in 1910,1911 and the Germans were using more sophisticated equipment. What else did they have? They had a very good size of navy and exceptionally well developed air force - so the Spitfire, R H Mitchell I think it was, the designer of the Spitfire and he had designed it more or less as an aircraft for winning the Schneider trophy (which is the air speed record). It was flown from Calshot round the Isle of Wight and the Schneider trophy was won by the SR6 which was based in Southampton (at the aviation museum, have you seen it?). That was the aircraft before the war which they developed basically the Spitfire from, with a Rolls Royce Merlin engine.

Lots of things changed then. The towns had to be blacked out at night because of showing up any industry. The German bombers would come over so there had to be no lights showing. We had to black out in the evening. Everything had to be on a war footing. There had to be very little light showing on cars. There was a clamp down on petrol, and food rationing started, because most of our food, as you well know, is imported. We are not sufficiently big enough to support ourselves. Lots of areas in the New Forest around here were ploughed up and put to corn and wheat and maize and potatoes.

The ground in the New Forest needed more nutrients and more fertilizer because it was very poor ground. The crops did not prove very successful. There are places in the New Forest now even here around Sway, where the ground was ploughed up. It was planted with mostly potato crops. You know where, along Slade Bottom, Horseshoe Common, by the Marlpit crossroads, you know there’s open stretches of land there where the cattle now graze, there’s hardly any fern or any gorse bushes, they are all cleared out. It was all ploughed up during the war and planted with crops, but it was a token effort because the ground didn’t produce very good crops at all so they left it and after that they decided they’d only plough it and plant a potato crop, a root crop, because the ground was a bit sour, had too much acid I think.

Having said that, the food rationing was felt really badly in 1941,42,and 43 because the Germans had tremendous strength in their submarines (U-Boats as they called them) and our shipping coming across from America and Canada, Australia, and South Africa, when our boats were coming in, they would follow the convoys.

The boats would be in convoys because convoys could be protected by the Royal Navy and part of our Air Force, but they could only be protected for so many miles out and it’s the areas where they couldn’t be protected where they were most vulnerable, so the food had to go on rationing because of the supply.

I didn’t realise till after the war that Germany had the same trouble. They were in a worse position than we were, but because their propaganda was so good we believed that they were really living in the lap of luxury and it was only Britain that was suffering. It wasn’t so. The continent was very short of food too. They used lots and lots of alternatives, they even made coffee from acorns. They ground acorns to make a drink, but we didn’t have to go that far.

We did have with the aid of the Americans, powdered eggs, and spam which is a well known meat compound put in tins and sent across to us. There were lots and lots of other food supplies coming in which was all a new type of thing to us . We had “K Rations” they called it, which was an American way of sending out a complete meal in a box.

Something similar to the rations you get on an aircraft when you fly on holiday - they put it on your lap in front of you. It’s a made up meal which is supposed to contain enough proteins and sugar, all that you require all in one package. But with the British, whilst the Americans had a lot of tinned food we still had the old corned beef as we call it, with bread which was quite good really considering the problems we had getting flour.

The second article in this series is entitled “War Time Britain & Things Look Bleak”. Look out for it if you are interested in the events of the 1940’s.

Copyright David Carter 2005, reproduced with permission.

In between writing David Carter runs a holiday cottage website http://www.pebblebeachmedia.co.uk where you can browse through over 7,000 holiday cottages, villas and apartments worldwide. His latest book is SPLAM. Successful Property Letting And Management, 240 plus pages and you can find more details of that at http://www.splam.co.uk. You can contact David on any matter at supalife@aol.com

BEFORE THE SOUNDS OF THE FIGHTER JETS

And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”

Job 26:14

In Chicago on the night before the annual “Air Show” brought the F-!6’s to skim screaming across the city streets, set off the parking alarms and make frightened dogs howl: we’re downtown. And it’s calm.

You stand a few blocks west of the sprawling new Pritzker Pavilion and it looks like some sort of silver space junk. A giant shredded tin can defeated in a galactic battle of the titans by a monster can opener. Left dizzy and sprawled up into the sky.

But walk into the park and the very world you live in changes.

First, you’re in Paris on a hot August night. Fountains and flowers. And in the lovingly crafted symmetry of the landscaping; somewhere Edith Piaf is singing, Jacque Brel is drinking, Picasso is scribbling and maybe if you walked just a few blocks from here there’d be this little dark place where Coleman Hawkins comes after the gig when it’s just about him and the saxophone.

Then Paris folds into Chicago as you approach the pavilion. And as you stand and look up through Frank Gehry’s silver diamond lattice work that somehow manages to pull together the stage, the seats, the sloping green lawn and the very sky itself—you begin to really sense the wonder in what looked like silver space junk from far away. A stage surrounded by a superstructure that’s like an actor or singer popping the palms of their hands out to the audienceholding their palms way above their head and singing out— from this place we will do the art that talks with God. From this place we will listen for those whispers.

Families of all shapes and sizes strolling the paths of the park. People linger on the benches. You stop on the side of the big stage to listen and watch. The orchestra in shorts and t- shirts. A leisurely rehearsal.

A curly grey haired man who even from a distance seems to just radiate some sort of musical glow—sits down at the piano. Around the orchestra—the musicians’ shoulders slump at ease. Daniel Barenboimis just goofing around. It’s a break in the rehearsal. A few musicians get up and leave the stage.

Then a nondescript woman in jeans and a blue summer top walks over and leans on the piano. Barenboim —with one fingerhits the same note eight timesDuke Ellington’s “C-Jam Blues”—and the woman lets go with a laugh that one just might be able to hear across the lake in Michigan, Barenboimstill on a breakplays the first 2 bars of Ellington’s “Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me.”

And then the woman, opera diva Rene Fleming, recognizable instantly by her voice, on a break this Thursday night, opens up the floodgates to sing. It is a voice as grand as the whole of our piece of the summer night sky. A voice that on a regular work night would be tossing off Puccini or Verdi on the stages of the world.

But tonight, on this break, on the night before the weapons of war come to parade across our horizon—this voice blending with Barenboim’s solo piano and the Ellington tune

Do nothing till you hear from me

Pay no attention to what’s said

Why people tear the seams of anyone’s dreams

Is over my head.

Daniel Barenboim, Argentinean born, maestro citizen of the world takes the interlude. From back in the orchestra, a bass jumps in to give a bottom. Renee Fleming moves her shoulders to Barenboim’s gentle swing.

That’s when the real miracle begins. From the far side of the stage, something you didn’t see before. This old, old man in a red checkered shirt plants his cane to get rise from his chair and steadies himself. Rene Fleming sees the man get up, laughs again like a star had just lit up the night and says: “Ah, our host! Studs Terkel ladies and gentlemen!” The orchestra applauds. And Renee sings to Studs:

Do nothing till you hear from me,

At least consider our romance,

If you should take the words of others you’ve heard

I haven’t a chance.

And even off on the side in the distance, the sparkle in Studs Terkel’s 93 year old eyes matches Fleming’s graceand as Barenboim takes the song around for one last quiet turn—Studs Terkel joins him, places one foot in front of the other, then shows an old slide step. A gentle soft shoe. Renee Fleming spreads her arms out in joy. Whispering memories of dancing in an old soft shoe that comes forth in the swaying of his shoulders while his feet still feel that they can keep the time. How faint the whisper of that memory of dancing: while the old man’s eyes still shine.

Some kiss may cloud my memories

And other arms may hold a thrill

But please do nothing till you hear in from me

And you never will.

A whispering memory of the dance. Tapped out perfectly in time. As if it were a prayer of thanks.

Thanks.—before the manufactured thunder of the jets.

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Former Senator, Daniel Moynihan, accurately summed up the
situation when
he posited that,”[t]he single most exciting thing you encounter in
government is competence, because! it’s so rare.” In the case of
politicians the public is protected from ineptitude and apathy
through term limits. Unfortunately for John Q. Citizen, the vast
majority of government bureaucrats exist in an environment devoid
of responsibility or accountability.

The endless transfer of incompetent workers rather than their
outright dismissal represents a choreographed farce known as
the “Lemon Dance.” The negligent, unqualified and indifferent
workers that fill millions of government positions do so with the
assurance that they will never be fired for their transgressions. For
example, your average sanitation worker wakes up in the morning
confident that regardless of missed routes, spilled garbage or traffic
collisions while on duty, he will continue to have a job the next day.

A recent study by the Los Angeles Daily News concluded that
only six out of thirty-seven thousand Los Angeles City government
employees had been fired for poor performance. On the national
level, the Federal Times reported in 2003 that none of the approximate
half a million workers of the eight Cabinet-level departments were
fired for poor performance from June 1993 to June 1998. The public
must ask themselves whether local and federal governments have
collected the finest group of individuals capable of error-free work,
or if there are inadequate systems in place that are unable to
address the rampant poor performance of government workers.

The outrageous misappropriation and waste of taxpayer dollars
provides another contributing step in the offbeat “Lemon
Dance.” Consider a recent example where two Los Angeles sanitation
workers made over $8,000 of unauthorized calls on city-issued cell
phones. After several warnings, and continued misuse of their cell
phones, the city workers were not terminated while management
lamented that they “did not have an adequate policy explaining to
their employees that it is wrong to use city cell phones for personal
business.”

The inability of government superiors to adequately discipline
government employees makes the “Lemon Dance” the modern-day
Achilles Heel of government. Entrusted with running society’s most
important institutions, government finds itself in a position where it
can neither terminate its least qualified employee, nor reward
exemplary standouts. Instead, government bosses tend to look the
other way when faced with the poor performance of their
subordinates. The complete lack of accountability present in
government has, in turn, created a culture of apathy where workers
have no motivation to perform at even adequate levels. Richard
Riordan, former Mayor of Los Angeles and present Secretary of
Education for the State of California, cites a lack of accountability as
the leading cause of poor performance plaguing government
institutions. Riordan admits that government run bureaucracies
“do[es] not hold anyone accountable, because [it] might hurt
somebody’s self esteem by firing them.”

Former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch’s strategy for
improving employee performance deserves consideration.
Concluding that it was better to release an ineffective employee
immediately rather than allowing them twenty-five years of wages
and retirement benefits, Welch regularly fired the bottom ten percent
of his employees based on performance evaluations. This type of
approach could do wonders for local, state and national government.
The termination of deserving employees sends a clear message
throughout the organization that incompetence will not be tolerated.

Albert Einstein suggested, “bureaucracy is the death of all sound
work.” The current state of government employment certainly
supports his assertion. However, government must begin to clean
house. Until it becomes possible for government to dismiss
incompetent workers, the public will continue to be held hostage by
unions and ineffectual procedures that would prefer the “Lemon
Dance,” to even modest accountability.

Copyright 2005 Michael Levine

Michael Levine is the founder of the prominent public relations firm Levine
Communications Office, based in Los Angeles. He is the author of Guerrilla PR,
7 Life Lessons from Noah’s Ark: How to Survive a Flood in Your Own Life.

GuerrillaPR.net is a resource for people that want to get famous in the media,
without going broke. http://GuerrillaPR.net

I have learned some new things in the last two days and thought I would share them with my readers. I am just a simple and humble columnist and op-ed writer. I usually don’t try to write about anything too hard. There are your sophisticated writers and then there are your humorous writers like that guy, what’s his name, who works for the Miami Herald but who is taking a small sabbatical (May he never returnI want his job.) I fall somewhere in the middle. Anyway.

New term: Ideological Imperialism.
Definition of term:

1.Ideological: Concerned with or suggestive of ideas.

2.Imperialism: A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries or a political orientation that advocates imperial interests.

I cannot say that I have coined this term. I think minds more mighty than my (feeble) own have thought this through and coined this term or phrase.

What got me to thinking about this is that recent business with the African-American Ideological Imperialists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They got their boxer shorts all twisted into a knot over President Vicente Fox’s most innocuous statement about Mexicans doing jobs that even American blacks will not doreferring to the Mexican migrant worker issue.

In the Mexican mind, in their cultural context, it was an innocuous and harmless statement. I should know because I live in Mexico and am exposed to this daily. Mexican mothers affectionately call their lighter-skinned children Blanquito and their darker-skinned ones Negrito.

Nevertheless, all political correctness hell has broken loose with the African-American branch of the American Ideological Imperialists, Jesse and Al, with Warp engines at maximum and PC phasers at the ready.

Even as I write these words, the African-American Imperialist, Lord Jesse Jackson, is in Mexico City giving President Fox and earful of his ideology of what is Politically Correct and what is not as applied to African-Americans. Jackson will not leave this alone.

Let me tell you why this is a prime example of American Ideological Imperialism.

Jackson and his ilk have an ideology of what should and should not be said when referring to people of the black color. Or, for that matter, what should be said, thought, or felt. He is here in Mexico, right now, “extending his rule over Mexico with his political orientation that advocates imperial interests”.

Jackson’s imperial interest: Force the rest of the world to adhere to his African-American Political Correctness.
Do you see this? Are you getting what I am trying to say? Jackson, Sharpton, and their organizations are not alone.

American Ideological Imperialism applies to the Jackson and Sharpton blacks, the Gay Agenda Activists, the Feminists, the Abortionists, you name itif there exists an American ideology about ANYTHING there will someone trying to force it down the throats of the rest of the world.

This is a major reason, I believe, why the world hates America! Why can’t America get that? America engages in Ideological Imperialism, they will not stop, and the rest of the world recognizes this as the height of super-arrogance.

Americans apparently believe that their views, and no one else’s, on issues of race, homosexuality, economics, terrorism, Mexican migrant workers, immigration, Homeland Security, feminism, and whatever else under the sun are the only right views!

“It’s my way or the highway!”

And they seek to ram their ideology of human existence down the throats of the worlda.k.a. Jesse and Al, in Mexico. God only know what they are saying!

Ideological Imperialismmemorize it!

About the Author

Doug Bower is a freelance writer and book author. His most recent writing credits include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, He lives with his wife in Guanajuato, Mexico. His new book Mexican Living: Blogging it from a Third World Country can be seen at http://www.lulu.com/content/126241

It’s the End of the World as we know it…

When did you think the world population would annihilate itself… i.e. bring about the End of the World… 2012! Yes… 2012 would announce the End of the World as it is today.

Imagine as of now… a world without computers and mobiles… what shall be the shape of the world to come… would it not mean the end of the world!

End of the world is not merely a saying; its implications would vary from place to place and country to country. Nostradamus predicted the End of the World in 1994, 1998 and also 2012. Why?

If the End of the World did not occur in 1998, it was merely because the entire population of the world sensing the impending danger of the world war engrossed itself in massive prayers… this led to the delaying of the End of the World as it is today!

Every passing day brings us nearer to End of the World. Why?

Even a layman can understand the catastrophe human beings are landing themselves in because of the breaking down of the family and the moral values in daily life. Literally the human beings as of today find indulgence in materialistic tendencies as humorous and entertaining.

The happenings in Iraq and Afghanistan are a testimony to this absolute truth. The end of the world shall accompany with itself a fight to the finish between Christianity and Islam.

End of the World is imminent for the trust between various countries, religions and castes is coming to an end. The faith lost shall only lead us towards the End of the World. There is no escape for the upheaval of the society is not possible without a looming World War Three.

Every revolution… every sacrifice carries with it the seed of the oncoming golden era. As of today when the manifest science is at its peak… in a short while from now and around 2012 we shall witness the End of the World… the most ghastly event that the humanity as of today shall face.

Who shall survive this End of the World phenomenon? Everyone… nay every human being for that matter who has a positive balance of Karma shall survive. One may witness a missile exploding at a short distance… the gods will shall save us from experiencing the rigors of the holocaust. Everyone with Punya Karma (positive balance of Karma) in balance shall experience a win-win situation.

End of the World Prediction by Nostradamus and others astrologers is purely based upon the balance of Karma of the total mankind at any given point of time. When the End of the World shall be can be assessed with fair accuracy as of now.

The End of the World does not mean a doom for the mankind… it shall only be a revival of the cherished golden values in the society. After the End of the World occurrence… the society shall again start from the basics… with no science to support initially… the mankind shall as stated by Einstein begin life as man had experienced it during the Stone Age.

The balance of Karma of the total humanity as of today indicates the looming danger around 2012. Every Era (Yuga) indicates the arrival of a Sanatana Purusha (manifest god himself)… one who is much above the level of man gods like Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus Christ and Prophet Mohammed.

This true son of god… imbibed with godly powers shall be able to scale the barriers that separates the societies and the countries all over the globe. He shall completely overall the existing social and moral values of the society which result in the End of the World predictions.

One who carries with him the conviction of Napoleon Bonaparte, the bulldog determination of the Winston Churchill, the humility which formed part of Mahatma Gandhi, the compassion of Buddha, the persistence which forms part of every Indian, and the flawless dedication for mankind as experienced in Madame Curie… all the powers combined shall be the forte of the representative of God the Almighty on mother earth.

One who shall uplift the values of the society back to their pedestal and bring back the society from the rigors of End of the World and usher it into a new era… One who delivers the mankind from the presently existing ills…? Sri Kalki Bhagavan… who shall he be?

Nostradamus has predicted one with a blue turban shall rule the world after the End of the World. Many all over the world who try to interpret this particular quatrain of Nostradamus do it wrongly. Quatrains by Nostradamus are not to be literally interpreted. One has to search for the hidden inner values in each and every quatrain.

Nostradamus in his quatrain by the blue turbaned one… simply meant that the advent of the true son of God shall be from a land which is of the shape of a blue turban… a piece of land surrounded by water on two sides… like in a turban. The peninsular shape of India which is surrounded by seas and oceans on two sides confirms this.

The blue turbaned one shall be from India… the country which produced Sri Krishna, Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus Christ and also Prophet Mohammed. India has since times immemorial been considered the place of worship and wisdom. And India shall pay a significant role in the End of the World saga.

Those who practice compassion and forgiveness in the face of the most extreme adversities are the true spiritual torch bearers of the society. The values practiced in India have no parallel in mankind. You hit on the one face and the other turns over… such was the compassion and forgiveness practiced by Mahatma Gandhi!

End of the World flash, End of the World cartoon, End of the World video and end of the world lyrics confirm that the End of the World is very near. As of today none wants to face the disastrous End of the World! Yet, we do not have a remedy! Why not all of us brace ourselves for the most tragic happening of the era… the End of the World!

About the author:

Vijay Kumar… The Man who Realized God in 1993 on nostradamus End of the World prediction prophecies How and when? subscribe free Newsletter “Spiritual Secrets Unveiled” - For more on End of the World prediction visit End of the World

This thought-provoking article introduces the reader to various applications of the Christian worldview to a host of political, social, theological and economic issues. Seat belts are required for this ride.

The issues chosen represent a selective sample from Carson’s studies. The Mandate aims to provide something of an overview of what a Christian nation would look like; for “righteousness exalts a nation,” and “blessed is that nation whose God is the Lord.” Boy, is this going to be controversial or what.

1. National Covenanting.

The Law of God requires the conjoining of U.S. churches and citizens into a National Christian Covenant with Almighty God, to honor the Person, Redemptive Work (Gospel), and Law, of the Lord Jesus Christ — as the only proper foundation of law for this land. All other religions [meaning false religions] are thereby to be banned from the public realm; yet they may be practiced privately without hindrance from the civil authorities. Although it is sinful at all times to practice false religion, yet not all sins are to be outlawed. Thus, although it be detestable idolatry, yet the Word of God permits that any person may legally practice PRIVATELY whichever religion(s) he will in his or her own home. Nevertheless, none may publicly promote any religion other than the faith of Jesus in any way, nor attempt to provide any good or service to aid and abet the unlawful promotion of false religion.

2. National Sovereignty. Because the divine law recognizes nations and their leaders as ordained of God’s providence, nations therefore possess legitimate authority with the right of self-government, and all those other rights necessary for the establishment and maintaining of good order in society delineated in the holy Scripture.

Consequently, this mandate rejects the alleged authority of any proposed international CIVIL government — whether formed by way of contract, covenant, league, or other means — as an attempted usurpation of the Crown Rights of Jesus Christ the Lord. For it is written: “but the Lamb shall overcome them, for HE is Lord of Lords and King of kings.” Therefore, multi-national empire-building is unlawful under the New Covenant, to all but the Lord Himself, to whom the nations were given by God (Ps. 2: Matt. 28:18)

3. Public Reverence for God.

3a. In accord with the second commandment, no business should be allowed to produce pictures, movies, films, statues (or images of any kind) which aim to portray any false deity [idols], nor of any one of the three Persons of the most holy, Triune God of the Bible [the One True and Living God].

3b. No business may lawfully import such products (idols of any kind) to offer these for resale to the public in this country. For it is written: “You shall make for yourselves no carved image, nor any likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God…”.

3c. Lawful Oath-taking. All oaths must be taken publicly, in the Name of the God of the Bible, as in “God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,” (or some approximation thereof approved by the Christian Church) and in that most holy Name only. No oath taken in the name of any other so-called “god” should have any legal authority to oblige others to any belief or act; indeed, any such a blatant attempt to promote false religion should be punished severely by the civil magistrate. As it is written: “You shall take your oaths in the Name of the Lord.” And again, “Let not the name of other gods be upon your lips.”

4. Sabbath-Keeping. No person or business may lawfully perform commercial labor on the New Covenant Sabbath Day (Sunday), except for the causes of mercy or necessity. But all persons must work diligently (as unto the Lord, and as God enables) on the other 6 days, to meet their own needs, and those of others. For it is written, “Six days shall you labor and do all your work.” And again, “Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.”

4a. No professional sporting event should ever be held, or be permitted to transpire, on the Lord’s Day (any Sunday). No professional sporting event that requires, or deliberately promotes, violence against others may lawfully be held at any time, including boxing, American football, kickboxing, the type of melodramatic “wrestling” popular on TV, or other like “sports.” No for-profit television programming may lawfully transmit on the Lord’s Day, nor any commercial, nor any advertisement for any goods or services.

4b. Environmental Responsibility. The law of God requires that the land be allowed to rest fallow 1 year in 7 (whether done on a rotational basis or all at once). Moreover, the Bible commands all men to manage wisely the resources God has placed under their authority. To that end, this Mandate supports environmentally sound projects, the clean up (and prevention) of environmental damage, the preservation of wildlife, smog reduction, and biofuels (and/ or clean fuels) as a replacement for the use of fossil fuels. For it is written: “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.”

4c. Charity. The Bible requires that we seek to bless, protect, and help the weakest members of society: the infirm or injured, the elderly, the poor, widows, immigrants, orphans, the handicapped, and the very young. For it is written, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

5. Biblical Child-rearing.

Parents ought to catechise their children with the standards given them by the Church, as well the Scriptures. Moreover, parents must (when necessary) enforce their God-given authority by either sharply reproving their children, or by spanking them aggressively on the butt until those so disciplined acknowledge their sins, apologising for them as directed by father or mother (or both). God regards failure to do so as the hatred of children, which he strictly forbids. As it is written, “He who spares the rod hates his son.” Moreover, it is the duty, both of the elders of the Church and of the civil magistrate, to aid and abet parents in the sacred duty of discipling their children, insofar as each office permits, and with the permission of the head of the household only.

5a. Male Headship. The Law of God charges that only men may hold public office, whether civil or ecclesiastical, and that the husband is the head of the wife in each family. The Bible thus opposes the holding of any public office by any woman, regardless of her intelligence, skills, or alleged fitness for office based on the appeal to some other attribute. Both women and men may vote at the age of 20 years, if they do and can prove that they own real estate in the U.S.; this is the same age at which men may enter military service. The military may not impose any draft to induce unwilling participants to fight for a cause of which they disapprove. No woman may serve as a combatant (soldier) in any branch of the military, but she may serve the military in a medical capacity, or in some other needed support role. For God has appointed men to serve women as protectors and leaders. Just as it is written: “But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”

6. The Right to Life for Infants, and All Other Innocent Persons.

This Mandate stands opposed MOST EARNESTLY to the detestable execution of prenatal infants under the guise of “abortion rights,” or “embryonic stem cell research,” or under any other guise. For it is written: “You shall do no murder.”

6a. Just Foreign Policies.

Nations may lawfully wage defensive wars only, and only against those directly responsible for acts of war. The U.S. has cause against Al-Qaeda operatives and conspirators, whose involvement in the “9/11 attack” can be proven in a U.S. court of law. Saddam Hussein has not been implicated by any such evidence to date. Iraq thus falls outside the proper domain of U.S. jurisdiction. The Bible implies therefore, that the President of the United States, the honorable George W. Bush should order an immediate, yet orderly and convenient, withdrawal of the U.S. military from Iraq; publicly apologize to God, the world, and the people of Iraq for this sin; and to repay the Iraqi people double the market value of the damages caused by the recent U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. For it is written: “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin disgraces any people.”

6b. The Death Penalty for Heinous Crimes.

The law of God condemns to death some 30 kinds of criminals, after a full investigation and jury find the suspect “guilty as charged” by the testimony of 2 or 3 credible witnesses [The witnesses cannot themselves be guilty of the crime in question.]. No suspect of a capital crime may be convicted upon circumstantial evidence only, nor acquitted by reason of insanity.

Upon conviction, the magistrate must carry out the penalty stipulated by God (stoning) or its cultural equivalent (firing squad), immediately and publicly. In a few cases (such as adultery, or kidnapping where the victim survives), the law of God allows the victim to waive or mitigate the stipulated sentence, depending on the nature of the crime.

6c. Just Criminal Punishments (Judgments). In the case of lesser crimes, those who commit them should either be fined, or beaten with stripes (whipped in public), or both, as the magistrate shall determine (but never exceeding 40); both the amount of the fine, and number of stripes should be determined by judges upon conviction by a jury. In the case of capital crimes, the death penalty is warranted. In no case should anyone ever be sentenced to an extended stay in a prison.

Prisons only punish innocent taxpayers for the offences of criminals and dehumanize those so incarcerated. The prison system is inherently unjust and inhumane, therefore, and ought to be abolished altogther, except for cells used as temporary detention devices for suspects awaiting trial, or for those convicted of capital crimes who await execution. For it is written: “…that you should not go beyond what is written.”

6d. Personal Medicinal Liberty. The law of the Lord permits no government to ban the sale or purchase of any pharmacological substance or medical equipment of any kind, except those used to promote any sin (such as “birth control”). Nevertheless, anyone found guilty of killing another human being — even though accidentally — while intoxicated or inebriated, because of the effects of some induced substance upon the killer’s faculties — the guilty party shall face the death penalty for negligent homicide, which is the same as premeditated murder in the eyes of God. As it is written: “You shall take eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life.”

6e. Biblical Medical Practices.

The psychiatric industry, based as it is upon so many counter-biblical (false) assumtptions that it offers no real help, and does much harm, to persons of all sorts — should be abolished by law — as ought also alleged professional counselors and psychologists.

Most “mental problems” are in fact secondary effects of real physical conditions improperly diagnosed (or undiagnosed) by medical practitioners. Those in genuine need of sound counseling should seek the advice of the wise elders of a church adorned by sound doctrine and good works. The Bible is sufficient for all matters of faith and practice, such that he who understands it well, and obeys it, is fit to counsel others. The wicked do not meet these qualifications — even if licensed by some board or other — and are therefore not fit to counsel anyone. It is written: “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked…” (Ps. 1:1).

7. The Holiness of Marriage as a God-given Institution.

This Mandate stands opposed to all sexual sin, including birth control (except in cases of undue health risk to one’s wife). It especially repudiates the detestable practices of sodomy, adultery, and the unlawful making or annulling of marriage vows. For it is written: “You shall not commit adultery,” and again, “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”

7a. Sexual Purity. All fornication (including prostitution) should be outlawed, including all forms of the public display of sex acts, and sexually suggestive material; all obscene and/ or sexually explicit langauge used in public places, and/ or in print, and/ or by way of any public medium (such as radio or television).

8. Honest Money.

The law of God requires that nations provide 100% collateral against their national currencies, and forbids “fractional reserve” banking, and the printing of paper money “at will.” It is written: “You shall not steal.” Thus, the United States of America should cancel all unsecured debts incurred against it by debtor nations, returning promptly to a precious metals currency standard.

8a. Lawful Taxation and Payment. This Mandate proposes the abolition of all unlawful forms of taxation (e.g. personal, federal income tax and property tax) and the reduction of all taxes combined to an amount totaling not more than 9% of a workers gross income, just as the divine law says. Minimum wage laws must be abolished, and all employers must either pay their laborers wages daily, or else (if agreeable to the workers) the employer must add 20% to the principal owed for each night he withholds the worker’s wage, according to the Law of the Lord.

8b. The Abolition of Entitlements. As God calls civil authorities ONLY to punish evildoers (as defined by His law), the causes of mercy and charity fall to the jurisdictions of the churches, and private enterprise. Thus, the U.S. government (at all levels) should abolish welfare, eliminate or sell the public education system, and cause to cease all other forms of entitlement programs. As it is written: “He [the civil magistrate] is God’s servant.” And again, “Do not add to the words of the Lord, lest he rebuke you, and prove you a liar.” The considerable money thereby saved to the government’s budget should be refunded to all taxpayers.

8c. As it is not the proper domain of the federal government, the U.S. government should abolish all tariffs and import taxes. These unlawful taxes only serve to harm U.S. business interests abroad, and tend to cause international economic instability (e.g. trade wars).

8d. As it is not the proper domain of any government to sponsor sporting or cultural events, The U.S. government should withdraw all funding (and sponsorship) of any endowments for the arts, olympic games, and the like, leaving such pursuits to private interests.

9. Antirealism (Instrumentalism) in the Theoretical Sciences.

Unless the central claims of a theory can be tested OBSERVABLY, there is no way of knowing whether or not they “refer” (point to) extralinguistic entities. The usefulness or predictive power of any model has no bearing upon its truthfulness, as utility and veracity are unrelated attributes. Science history affords many examples of successful theories presently judged “false” by their respective scientific communities. This shows that NO scientific way of determining “truth” apart from a biblical warrant for knowledge exists. As it is written: “All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hid in Him [Christ]” (Col. 2:3).

9a. Biblical Creationism.

I. No observable evidence exists for the popular-but-silly claims that life evolved from non-life, intelligent life from unintelligent, or that amoral animals evolved into humans. If that WERE true, if things “somehow” become their opposites, this would show that the world is magical, undermining the assumptions that make science possible. Moreover, the interdependence of the organs of organisms and animals renders evolution an “all-at-once” or else “never-at-all” proposition, since changing one organ would require CORRESPONDING changes in the other organs to retain the viability of the organism or animal in question.

Evolutionary theory is therefore: Scripturally false; logically impossible; biologically unprovable, and hostile in principle to the scientific enterprise.

II. This Mandate stands opposed to “scientific creationism,” which seeks to turn the infallible Word of God into the fallible (and often false) words of men (i.e. scientific models). This would rob the Word of God of its ultimate authority, foolishly subjecting God’s surely-truthful claims to man-made (and erroneous) tests for credibility. It is written: “You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.”

9b. Biblical Education. The public education system should be rejected as a competitor to the biblical educational model (discipleship). OGC favors private education offered from a thoroughly Christocentric perspective in: Biblical theology, literature and languages; logic and critical thinking; English; math; history; political science; the physcial sciences; foreign language studies; economics; computer science; philosophy, and all studies preparatory for real-life occupations.

Parents are to play a vitally central role in the rearing of their children in the fear and the admonition of the Lord, and must oversee the education of their children, whether directly or indirectly. For it is written: “Fathers, teach your children;” and again, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.”

10. Fiscal Wisdom.

The law of the Lord permits no form of gambling to the public. This includes all forms of “wagering,” or the use of machines or animals to bet upon or put money in; all attempts to generate (or receive) random payments for money wagered should be outlawed. This does not include prize drawings as incentives to purchase goods and services, where one wagers no money or capital for the opportunity to win — as any person has the right to give away his money or property however (s)he may choose.

Finally, no casino should be permitted to operate, for it is written: “You shall not covet.” Nevertheless, all forms of trading and investing are lawful, whether it be the trading of stocks, futures, options or any other lawful product or service — tangible or intangible — including all tobacco and alcohol products. Yet all tobacco and alcohol products should display clear warnings on their labels as to the potential health hazards of overconsuming such products, and the magistrate may properly restrict smoking to private places, according to the sixth commandment.

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In response to the Murdering organization Hamas winning last week’s Palestinian election, the European Union (EU) demanded that Hamas recognize Israel (CNN).
ItsTheRightWay.com has been very critical of European countries like France and Germany for their support of terrorism toward Israel. We applaud the Eu’s position in regards to Hamas.

Hamas has slaughtered hundreds of innocent babies and children over the years. The fact that Palestinians elected an organization that calls for the destruction of Israel, speaks volumes of the morality of the Palestinian public.

How can Israel be expected to negotiate with baby killers and a group that calls on Israel’s destruction? Obviously the EU doesn’t think diplomacy is possible under these circumstances. The EU’s position is powerful. The EU has been a big supporter of the Palestinian hope for an independent nation. In the past, the EU has turned a blind eye toward Hamas’s killing of babies, because it believed in the peace process.

Now there’s uncertainty that peace can be achieved. The international community is skeptical that a terrorist organization like Hamas is willing to lead the Palestinians toward peace with their Israeli neighbor.

I believe that the EU is now starting to find out what the Palestinian public is all about. It’s about the destruction of Israel. The fact that Hamas won a huge majority in last week’s election, shows the free world that maybe the Palestinians are driven by hatred and don’t really want peace.

We salute the EU for sending a message to the murderers. We don’t think the EU went far enough. The United States has suspended sending funds to the Palestinians and has called on other nations to do the same.

The EU may follow suit in the near future if Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel. So now the ball is in Hamas’s court. They will either sink or swim. If they continue with their barbaric actions the international community will line up against them.

Hamas is not a fringe organization anymore and this means that it’s not free to fire missiles at Israel. The EU now expects Hamas to lead the Palestinians with legitimacy and diplomacy.
We’re not sure if Hamas has the will to represent the Palestinian people properly. Electing Hamas may have been an error in judgment by the Palestinian public.
It could have set back their dream for an independent nation.

Unfortunately the Palestinian people will have to live with their choice of government. The Palestinian people believe that Hamas will improve their economic position but unless Hamas deals with Israel in a diplomatic fashion, that will never happen.

In fact their economic position may worsen. Palestinians may find themselves isolated from the international community. We’re not sure what will happen but one thing is certain, it’s do or die time for Hamas.

Anthony B. is the founder and owner of ItsTheRightWay.com a news, political and sports commentary website.

Anthony has over 7 years of experience as a business professional